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/ 26 October 2010
At least 108 people were killed and more than 500 missing on Tuesday after a tsunami hit a remote Indonesian island chain.
Quake-hit Indonesia appealed for foreign aid on Friday as the stench of decomposing bodies hung over wrecked buildings.
Asian countries reeled from the full force of nature’s fury on Thursday with thousands feared dead in an onslaught of earthquakes and typhoons.
Two luxury hotels struck by suicide bombers reopened on Wednesday in Jakarta, as an al-Qaeda blog claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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/ 19 October 2007
At least 31 people were killed and 125 rescued after a ferry sank off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island in the latest of a series of transport accidents to hit the archipelago nation, officials said on Friday. Residents near the town of Bau Bau on south-east Sulawesi heard survivors screaming and pleading for help after the Acita 03 capsized.
Investigators combed through the burned-out skeleton of an Indonesian airliner on Thursday as a senior police official cited human error as a possible cause of a deadly onboard inferno. The Garuda Airlines plane caught fire after landing at speed at Yogyakarta airport and careering off the runway into a rice paddy, killing 21 people.